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There are many sophrologists, often recently set up, and lots of them describe their work with the same three words: relaxation, breathing, serenity. People searching don't always know what a session is, or how you differ from the practice next door. I work on your Google Business Profile and your website so your one-to-one sessions, your groups and your workplace sessions are described precisely, with no health promises.
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A Cognac resident is looking for a sophrology group near her. Your site shows up third, under the title “Welcome | Sophrology practice”. She knows neither where you are nor whether you run groups. Time to rewrite those two lines.
Fig. 1. Three results for a sophrology group. Only one actually meets in Cognac. (Your group meets every week. Your title never mentioned it.)
What this means for you. I rephrase your titles and descriptions so they state a place, a format and a time, without a single word about health.
SEO for a sophrologist is the work that makes a sophrology practice visible on Google and in AI answers to people living in its area. It rests on an accurate Google Business Profile, one page per session format (one-to-one, group, workplace, remote) and an introduction to the practitioner with their training. Sophrology is not a regulated health profession: the pages describe exercises and a framework, and announce no health effect.
The problem
A mood-setting line at the top of the home page doesn't say what happens for an hour in your practice. The person wants to know whether they'll be sitting or standing, whether they'll have to talk, what they'll practise at home. Until the website answers, they don't book.
Practitioner lists and booking tools sort sophrologists by distance or availability. Your experience with teenagers or your knack for groups doesn't show there. You're just one name among others.
Before exams, in September, at the start of the year, searches rise, then fall back. A practice that relies only on those periods has empty weeks. Pages about regular groups and workplace sessions even out the activity.
An audit, for real
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A warm practice for a break in your week.
BookFig. 2. Fictional site, reconstructed. Any resemblance to yours would be a good reason to call me.
What your customers type
Six searches given as examples. The topics mentioned are the ones people type: I claim nothing about what sophrology changes. Your real searches are measured during the audit.
What works
Many sophrologists share premises or are only there on certain days. The profile must reflect those days and hours, otherwise people make the trip for nothing or call into the void. I also set the category, the description and the booking link.
One-to-one session, weekly group, workplace workshop, video session: four audiences and four searches. Each page gives the process, the length, the price and the place. A single “my services” paragraph isn't enough to show up for those requests.
I get you to describe the first appointment minute by minute: the opening chat, the exercises, the time to talk at the end, what the person takes away. This account answers the fear of the unknown, which holds many people back from booking.
Your page states your training, your career before sophrology and the audiences you know. You only use the titles you're entitled to use. It also says that you don't make diagnoses and that your sessions don't replace medical or psychological care.
Teenagers, athletes, employees, older people: if you're used to working with an audience, it deserves its own page. You describe there how you adapt the sessions. These specific pages are less contested than the home page and attract people who've already made up their minds.
What costs dearly
A sentence announcing less anxiety or better sleep is a health claim. You don't need to make one, and it weakens your website in Google's eyes. Describe the exercises and let the person judge what they get out of them.
The founder, the levels, the schools of thought: that interests your peers. The visitor wants to know where you are, when you see people and how much a session costs. Keep the history for a secondary page.
When the “book” button leads straight to an external tool, someone still hesitating has nobody to ask their question. Leave a phone number and an email address too.
“Group sessions on request” triggers no sign-ups. A day, a time, a place and a number of spots make people want to come, and Google can read that information.
The method
Four steps. They start from the profile, because your future clients look for you within a few kilometres of home first.
One-minute test
Five frank questions to find out whether support makes sense in your situation. Sometimes the answer is no, and I'll tell you.
What it brings in
A ranking doesn't pay a salary. What counts is what it brings: enquiries, customers, revenue. Move your page up and see what it could bring in.
Example assumptions, open to challenge: 350 searches a month for a sophrologist in your commune, 4% of visitors send a request, one request in three is signed (this varies a lot between industries), €300 per client. Click-through rates by position are rough orders of magnitude, and they've been shifting since Google started showing AI answers above the results. Redo the maths with your own figures
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Close to home
In Charente, a sophrologist may see clients at a practice in Angoulême or Cognac and also run sessions in a community hall, an association or a company in the département. Each place draws its own search, with the name of a town or a village. A single page can't answer them all. Saying where you are each day of the week helps everyone find you close to home.
You might see clients in Angoulême on Tuesdays and run a group in La Rochefoucauld or Châteauneuf on Thursdays. Each place needs its own paragraph, with the address and time. Village residents search with the name of their commune.
If you work with companies, say in which area and in what form. A “workplace sophrology” page naming the Cognac and Jarnac area, with the distance you're willing to travel, makes you visible to whoever is tasked with finding a facilitator.
Clubs, neighbourhood associations, care homes, schools: these organisations sometimes look for a regular facilitator. A page describing your past sessions, with their agreement, presents you as someone used to these settings.
Beyond Google
Today people ask an AI such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Mistral the questions they used to ask a friend. For example: “my daughter is taking her baccalauréat in June and panics in front of her papers, does any sophrologist see secondary school pupils near Angoulême?”. The AI explains in a few lines what sophrology is, reminds the user that it doesn't replace medical advice, then sometimes suggests names.
To suggest those names, it reads websites, Google Business Profiles and reviews. It needs precise sentences: “sessions for secondary school pupils, Wednesday afternoons in Angoulême, short series before exams”. It more readily sets aside pages announcing a health effect, because it approaches these topics with caution. An identified sophrologist who states their training and describes their sessions without promising anything matches what it wants to cite. I prepare your pages with that in mind, alongside your Google SEO.
Question asked to an AIMy daughter is taking her baccalauréat and panics before the exams. Does any sophrologist see secondary school pupils near Angoulême?
After reminding the user that a doctor remains the first port of call, the AI suggests three leads:
Fig. 3. Reconstruction, names hidden. This is the spot we aim for: on the list, with the most precise description.
Three typical cases
These three examples are made up. Each matches a different format. We choose yours together, and the smallest is often enough for a practice that's just setting up.
Suggestion: an audit of the Google Business Profile, for an error-free start.
Suggestion: a few hours of coaching at his own pace, or a short training course to publish without help.
Suggestion: monthly support, because there are several audiences and several locations.
In practice
Pricing
The fee depends on four things. I give you a precise amount after a free first thirty-minute conversation.
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Who you're talking to
My name is Kévin Papot. More than fifteen years in the job, four co-written books, and the Newp agency, co-founded in Charente. I also run my own online shops, in France and internationally: one of them went from zero to a million visits a month.
Before we talk tags, we talk margin, average basket and profitability. When you book a call, I'm the one who picks up.
FAQ
With a small format, not a subscription. You choose between an audit of the Google Business Profile, a few hours of coaching and a short training course. Any one of the three is enough to get set up, and you add to it later at your own pace. If you're not looking for new clients right now, SEO can wait, and I'll tell you so. Monthly support makes sense later, with groups in several communes, workshops or work with companies.
Write nothing general on this. The rules vary and I don't state them for you. You can say that you issue an invoice and invite the person to check with their own insurer. Have the wording validated before publishing it.
You can talk about it, not announce an effect. Writing that your sessions act on sleep would be a health claim, and you don't practise a health profession. Write that people come with sleep concerns, describe your exercises and recommend medical advice when the difficulties persist.
It happens. You avoid it with an exact profile name, your own phone number, your own hours and a well-chosen category. I also check that the other profiles at the same address don't reuse your information.
No. Multiplying pages by condition gives the image of a practice that answers everything, and forces you to write about medical subjects. I prefer pages by audience and by format, which you can describe accurately.
Yes, if you genuinely offer them. The page specifies the tool used, the length, the price, and what to prepare at home: a chair, some quiet, headphones. It can attract people far from a practice, including in your own département.
Precisely and carefully. State the age from which you see young people, the parents' role, the adapted length. Don't announce any school results or changes in behaviour. Parents are looking for a reassuring framework, not a promise.
They can serve the website. A short, freely available recording, presented as a sample breathing exercise, lets people hear your voice and your pace. The person gets an idea before booking. Don't attach any promise to it.
You explain your practice to me out loud, the Newp team writes, and you review everything. I'm not a sophrologist. My role is to choose the topics, structure the pages and make sure no sentence goes beyond what you can claim.
Allow a few weeks for the profile fixes to show, and several months for the pages. These timeframes vary from town to town. I don't commit to any ranking. With ongoing support, I show you how bookings evolve month after month.
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